Oh my, this stuff is good. Following reader Alain’s advice, I smeared my red bean paste on some cornbread with a big dollop of the coconut peanut butter. Weird combo? Yes, and I totally wish I could take credit for this one. So yummy Alain.

The coconut peanut butter is creamy and spreadable (love that!). It’s super sweet too and so coconutty. According to the company, the sweetness factor comes from spoon meat, the jello-like meat of young coconuts, and the smooth texture comes from adding meat from older coconuts. Their recipe is amazing, seriously, some of the best peanut butter I’ve ever eaten. If you’re in Hawaii, then you must find some, and if not, the company ships all over the world.

Now, I did not open the chocolate peanut butter as it does contain sugar, and so I’ve decided to share the North Shore love and give it away to one of you. For a chance to win, simply leave a comment below telling me what we should name Summer’s new platypus. The winning name will receive the peanut butter (sorry, but I can only ship to U.S. residents). Also, the peanut butter is not vegan as the chocolate used contains dairy.

Meet’s Summer’s platypus, a gift from her Grandpere.

News to share…

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LET HIM BE CALLED , “PANQUEQUE” !!!! As in the spanish word for pancake. Reason being, the word platypus is derived from the meaning “flat”. So I thought…HEAB…FOOD…FLAT…PANCAKES…PANQUEQUE!!!!!!! VOILA!

Plus, we need to teach Summer some espanol, Si?

I love all things nut butter and would LOVE to win!!! Bring on the choco-butter for my pan que ques!

First off, I love your website. You and Matt Tabor are who actually inspired me to make my own. I’m not very good with computers, but I do love to cook and run! I’m trying to promote my blog a little and am having a Justin’s Nut Butter Giveaway this month. Is there any day this month that you could maybe throw a shoutout in one of your posts? Lol.

Logan,
I decided to stop promoting other bloggers’ giveaways. So Sorry, but I would feel awful if I said yes to one and no to another. I hope you understand, and hopefully some people will read about it here in the comments.

Haha so weird I m just watching a movie about Australia!you know I was born in Australia I loved this cartoon called blinky bill when i was a kid which was about a koala and his friend the platypus was named “flap” – so I vouch for flap xxxo
P.s grandpa has brilliant taste in gifts!

Sir Percival, aka Percy the Platypus… and I’m Australian… you should look into getting the ever-adorable Summer some of the classics of Australian children’s literature – Snugglepot & Cuddlepie: the Gumnut Babies; Blinky Bill; The Muddle-headed Wombat; and lastly, The Magic Pudding. Exquisite illustrations; cheeky storylines. Then in about ten years, let her read Seven Little Australians, a real coming-of-age book for girls.

Wow, I actually do! but I don’t believe I could part with them despite the impressive price tag for the very same reason Summer will refuse to give up her platypus one day – sentimental value is the only value worth having. I remember my mum reading these books aloud to me; the forefront of my memory dominated by the shape of her moving lips. Money makes me happy within reason but those memories make me happy without rhyme or reason…. Read aloud to Summer, Heather, she won’t forget it.

Its already been said but my first thought was Patty…then after that peanut! so there you go…a triple and a double….LOL.. OH wait…how about Peanut Patty! Summer is adorable! I also like Sunny and Summer…too cute… Great ideas….now you will never be able to name it with so many awesome ideas.. Good Luck!
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I’m probably weird, but I like to give stuffed animals and other cute things what I think of as “old man names.” It’s just funny to juxtapose the cuteness against the name. So for this guy I would say…. Vern.

On second thought, I also quite like Patrick. I’m a huge fan of alliteration. My stuffed animals often were named obvious things (like brownie for a brown dog or snowball for a polar bear), so Platty could work. Oh, if only Summer was old enough to make the decision for herself! I’m sure we would all love hearing what she would name him .

Heather both of my girls have this exact platypus. There grandmother gave it to them years ago and they have traveled with us all over the place (now in Australia). My daughter calls hers Mr. Winston. I have no idea why.

Perkins the Platypus if it’s a boy!
Sydney if it’s a girl, since Platypus live in Australia
Your daughter is adorable, btw!! And I LOVE the name Summer.
Also I love coconut butter. And I love chocolate. And I love peanut butter.
So it would be good for me to win this one since I’ve never won anything before and this looks like a good one to win

I did a little research and discovered that platypus actually have spurs on their ankles. The females are not venomous, but the males are. When I think of spurs, I think of Cowboys. So, I think it should be called Cowboy.

Petunia the Platypus. My little sister and I used to name a lot of our stuffed toys and dolls ‘Petunia’ for some odd reason. We thought it was hysterical. Petunia would get shortened to Toony, Tunia, Yaya, Petty, Patty, etc. but we must have had a dozen things at once called Petunia.

That is the most confused platypus I’ve ever seen! It thinks it is an iguana and has gone yellow. I would name it “Sally” and sing Mustang Sally every time Summer was chilling out on the plat:
…All you wanna do is ride around, Sally, Ride Sally ride…

The firts thing I thought of was “Peppy”. It seems so bright and energetic (for a stuffed animal) and maybe a name like Peppy will be easy for Summer to sound out eventually? Either way, she, and “peppy” are too cute for words!

wilbert (can be shortened to willy for summer when she’s going to mangle words as she learns to speak like all children… i loved, loved my cousins when she were going through that stage.. omg, so cute, melts!) or patrick (patti, same logic)

i kinda am hoping u want this to be a male patypus.. i want ths to be a male patypus that will protect her as she goes paddling in the river..

Too funny – my brother was obsessed with platypus’ throughout his childhood! Literally. He wanted a platypus cake for his birthday one year, when the party came around he could not bear to let us eat the part of the cake with the platypus on it, so we had to eat around it. The part of cake with the platypus is STILL in my parents’ freezer. I think my mom plans to pass it on to his wife when he gets married someday Um, and that birthday party was at least 13 years ago.
Haha, anyway, Summer looks adorable on her’s! I think you should name it Peggy the Platypus

I want to name the toy “Pooh”. The colore reminds me of Pooh, and it’s just a flatter version of Pooh. ha ha! I think I’ve been going to Disney too much.

I really want to have some of that coconut butter goodness. I think I’m going to ask family to bring those from Hawaii for me, when I see them at my wedding next month. Hopefully they can find it, it looks like a small operation.

When I first saw the (super cutie!) picture, my first thought was that the platypus looks like that duck in the movie “Click”… you know, the duck that the dog humps on & off throughout the movie… well, the dog’s name is Sundance and I think that would be a *perfect* name for Summer’s new platypus! And I’d love that peanut butter.

The platypus is super cute (as is Summer!). What to name a platypus?
Pala is the maltese translation…Pala the Platypus. Kinda cute and easy to say.
Or Platy for short. Probably easy enough to say once she starts talking.